if he, you know, if he knew i was alive. >> larussa sold his italian restaurantinclintonandnow lives peacefully in st. mary's county. >> i have moved on. it doesn't haunt me. >> not like at first when he had nightmares. that fateful september 5th malvo, 17 at the time, approached his car, raised a handgun to the driver's side window and fired five .22 caliber rounds. witnesses saw him. >> he ran up to the car window. they saw him shoot and open the backdoor, grab my computer and briefcase and run down the street. >> reporter: did they see him get in a car? >> no. there was no car. >> reporter: for the longest time you just thought? >> random act of violence of some sort. >> he was shot in the chest, stomach and back. malvo ran off with the laptop in larussa's car and a briefcase containing several thousand dollars. >> that's where it started with me and that computer was mine. so then i dealt with the fact that i was part of this insanity. >> oddly larussa didn't find out he was a sniper victim until police arrested malvo and john muhammad and recovered his laptop from the jerry ri